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Marxist Feminist Study Groups

We take cues from the organizational and theoretical innovations of Marxist/Materialist Feminisms and Anti-racist/Anti-colonial Communist movements and seek to make space for institutionalizing the lessons from past movements that have successfully built inclusive and militant left organizations and milieus.

Queer Workers Project

Group for discussion about queer working life, and organizing solidarity networks in New York City and beyond. What to organize a flying picket? This might just be the place.

Open Borders Committee

To learn more about the Rapid Response Network in Brooklyn, please visit The Base BK. If you or a loved one is experiencing a mental health crisis, needs basic first aid, needs defense against ICE raids, requires support for countering hate attacks, and cop watch, dial our friends at the the Rapid Response Network Number (347) 746-6229.

Why Red Bloom?

✽ First, because “bloom” means both individual and collective flourishing, signifying both a single flower and a mass of individuals blossoming simultaneously. As communists, we know that since individual and collective flourishing are a single process, individual and collective liberation must be a single project. It takes a thriving ecosystem to produce a single flower, and it takes a thousand flowers blooming to turn the whole field red.

✽ Second, because a bloom reminds us of labor’s power to cultivate, harvest, manufacture, nourish, and heal – and of the work of production and social reproduction that makes human flourishing possible. This power is at once the reason for our exploitation and the engine of our liberation, much like those flowers that can be used either to cure or to kill. There’s a reason tyrants and abusers have always feared poisoning by the slaves, servants, wives and children who prepare their food, after all; they understand better than anyone that the more thoroughly they exploit us, the more vulnerable they are to our revolt.

✽ Finally, because the bloom recalls the historic demand for bread and roses, reminding us that we are not the first to fight for a world beyond the hustle to survive. We are the heirs of all those who risked everything for a glimpse of such a world, who never stopped seeking each other by glances and signs: the hanky in the pocket, the flower in the lapel. We continue their struggle, and we plan to win.